Expanding iron mine returns Minnesota to its road-moving ways – by Dan Kraker (Minnesota Public Radio News – July 30, 2014)

http://www.brainerddispatch.com/ Virginia – Every day, 10,000 cars zip along Highway 53, one of the Iron Range’s most vital transportation arteries. Just a few hundred feet from the roadway, between Virginia and Eveleth, hidden by a strip of trees, the earth falls away into a mammoth mine pit, where four-story tall trucks scrape red ore out […]

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